On Tools and the Aesthetics of Work

On Tools and the Aesthetics of Work

Published by this siteIn the summer of 2022, an engineer named Keegan McNamara, who was at the time working for a fundraising technology startup, found his way to the Arms and Armor exhibit at the Met. He was struck by the unapologetic mixture of extreme beauty and...
On Tools and the Aesthetics of Work

We Don’t Need a New Twitter

Published by this siteIn July, Meta announced Threads, a new social media service that was obviously designed to steal market share from Twitter (which I still refuse to call X). You can’t blame Meta for trying. In the year or so that’s passed since Elon Musk vastly...
On Tools and the Aesthetics of Work

Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek

Published by this siteWithin my particular subfield of theoretical computer science there’s perhaps no individual more celebrated than Edsger Dijkstra. His career spanned half-a-century, beginning with a young Dijkstra formulating and solving the now classic shortest...